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I am SUPER impressed with this show. It's like a combination of Heroes and Spaced, and just as good as either at it's best. The show is written by first time writer Emma Moran and she is a truly talented and original voice. The show is genuinely funny. It's just the right amount of raunchy, has likeable characters, and at it's core it's a goodhearted show with real warmth. I wish I had more to say about it, but I'm still in the middle of the first season, and felt compelled to add a good review in hopes that it might give the show even the smallest bump on imdb. It's the best show I've seen in a while and I hope there's more to come, at least more by Emma Moran.

Steve Coogan is great! All of the actors are great. I should get that out of the way before I give The Reckoning a bad review. Here's the problem. It's boring. I've only seen the first two episodes, but so far it's about a flamboyantly dressed old man shuffling from one darkly lit brown room to another for two hours. I understand that the makers of The Reckoning didn't want to be too exploitative, but in doing so they've created a portrait of Jimmy Saville that's just a little bit creepier than his public image while he was alive. We're given the set up to his crimes, and then a cut to the next scene every time. I don't want to give the impression that I would prefer to see Saville graphically assaulting people, but it feels pointless to portray his crimes as shadowy and mysterious if there's to be any sort of a reckoning. The Reckoning needs to go at least as far as the documentaries that have been made about him. It reminds me a little of a bad miniseries that was made about Ted Bundy in the 80's called The Deliberate Stranger starring Mark Harmon. In it they never show any of Ted Bundy's crimes, which only serves to make him seem like a guy who's always in a rush to get from one place to another. I feel kind of the same about Jimmy Savile in this. He seems like a guy who's always accompanied by ominous music, but never really gets to follow through with his bad intentions. Also, as a lot of the other reviews have mentioned, the BBC doesn't hold itself as accountable as it should.

This movie is a time waster: someone or something which causes another person to waste time doing something that does not achieve any good result. Sorry I decided to waste your time with the definition. Full disclosure, I'm reviewing this movie after only having watched 23:06 of it. I'm not sure how much more I'm going to watch so I'm going to write my review now. This is not a great movie. The movie is obviously intended for a teenage crowd, but the movie can't help being condescending towards its intended demographic. As soon as the first high school student in the movie started talking, I guessed that the ages of the director and writers were around 50 (I looked it up and I was right). Anyway, the main character travels back in time, Hot Tub Time Machine style (by which I mean with out any sort of scientific explanation), which led me to assume that the same people involved with making Happy Death Day were involved with this movie. Nope. I mean Blumhouse produced both, but the writers are different. I guess time travel is just a thing that happens in slasher movies now.. for no reason. So the main character travels back to 1987 and the first thing she does is tell some guy that his Female Body Inspector shirt is very problematic, which is when I got depressed and ate some chocolate. Then I stopped the movie, and I'm not sure I'm going to keep going. But what do I know? You'll probably like it.